<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=554361316-25072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>/etc/thinkpad.conf</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=554361316-25072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=554361316-25072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>beano = yes;</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=554361316-25072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=554361316-25072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Art Ped<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:49 AM<BR><B>To:</B> fedora-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: There's a robot farting in my ear.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>Price Technology <pricetech@charter.net></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <P>Sam Tregar wrote:<BR><BR>> I'm not kidding. When I listen to music on my laptop running FC2<BR>> every so often I hear the unmistakable sound of a robot passing gas.<BR>> It's somewhere between a buzz and static. Does anyone know how to<BR>> solve this?<BR>> <BR>> The machine is a Thinkpad T20. The sound chip is a Crystal Audio<BR>> Sound Fusion PCI. I'm using the cs46xx ALSA driver in a 2.6.7<BR>> kernel. I added the "thinkpad=1" option in modprobe.conf but that<BR>> didn't help.<BR>> <BR>> I'm thinking about trying the OSS driver since it's still in the<BR>> kernel. Does anyone have a better idea?<BR>> <BR>> -sam<BR>> <BR>> <BR>Don't feed the laptop beans or cabbage.<BR><BR>fedora-list mailing list<BR>fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>To unsubscribe: <A href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A></P> <P> Dear Sam</P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sorry it's taken me such a long time to get to your post. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am a user of a Thinkpad R31. Presumably, your laptop is made to a much higher quality (it probably costed more and probably wasn't made in a Pacific island sweatshop), but the problem you describe is one I have suffered.</DIV> <DIV>When I played music on the laptop it would be okay for a while and then it would start spluttering, and then the sound would degenerate from the crystal tones of Beethoven piano sonatas to that of a flatulent robot.</DIV> <DIV>Later, the farting stopped and there was no more sound.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And so I took it to a repair place, and they inspected the sound card. It turns out that they didn't kit the laptop out with a big enough fan or heatsink during the design stages and the soundcard's innards had burnt out and/or melted. I *think* IBMs tend to position their sound cards very near the processor and RAM part of the computer where the heat can build up big time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My message is: by all means don't rule out a hardward problem.</DIV> <P> <HR SIZE=1> <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://www.allnewmessenger.com"><STRONG><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG> - all new features - even more fun!</STRONG></FONT><STRONG><FONT color=#ff9900> </FONT></STRONG></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>